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A18948	The recantation of Thomas Clarke (sometime a Seminarie Priest of the English Colledge in Rhemes; and nowe by the great mercy of God conuerted vnto the profession of the gospell of Iesus Christ) made at Paules Crosse, after the sermon made by Master Buckeridge preacher, the first of Iuly, 1593. Whereunto is annexed a former recantation made also by him in a publique assembly on Easter day, being the 15. of April, 1593	Clarke, Thomas, seminarie priest of the English college at Rheims.	1594 (1594)	STC 5366; ESTC S118981	19,358	48

ye are saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes lest any man should boast himselfe whereby it is euident that mens merits auaile not to iustification and therfore this doctrine of the aduersaries together with the rest I renounce and abiure As for the authoritie of princes in matters Ecclesiasticall for in Temporall I knowe no doubt had not Iosua Dauid Salomon and other Kings and Rulers power to commaunde and intermeddle in causes Ecclesiasticall Did not Iosua cōmand and appoint the Priests and Leuites how and in what manner they should carry the Arke of God and by warrant from Gods owne mouth direct and gouerne them in the bearing thereof ouer the waters of Iordan Did not God often times manifest the disposing of holy things to the Kings rather then to the Priests which in no case he would haue done if his will had bene that they should haue had no dealings in such kind of causes As for the examples of Dauid Salomon because the wordes of text are too long to recite I referre the Christian audience to the perusing of these places of scripture viz. 1. Chron. 13. 15. 16. chap. the 7. 8. and 9. Chap. of the third booke of Kings according to some translations according to other some the first booke By these and diuers other testimonies both of the olde and new Testament I haue sufficient warrant to acknowledge not onely the right and authoritie of my dread soueraigne in causes Ecclesiasticall within all her Maiesties Dominions but also of all Christian kings and Princes in their proper landes and Realmes and the contrary doctrine as ful of lurking poyson I renounce and abiure And here I will ende with the Pope as the roote and body from whence whereon all branches of errors and superstitions do grow but because I haue already plainly declared vnto you his grossenesse or rather impudencie in doctrine I shall haue lesse occasion to stand vpon himselfe for by the fruite we are to iudge what the tree is It is impossible saith Christ that a man should gather grapes of thornes or figs of thistles euen so it is impossible that a man should draw vertuous and wholesome doctrine forth of an infected fountaine such an one as the Pope is who seeketh his owne glory and mainteineth his glory by his owne doctrine neglecting or rather contemning both the glory doctrine of Christ Whose insolent pride and vsurping authoritie ouer all Christian kings and Princes as also his deuilish madnesse in opposing himselfe against God and his Church by sowing the seede of false doctrine in the hearts of people make me to confesse him to be that abomination of desolation sitting in the holy place which was prophecied by Daniel and mentioned of our Sauiour Christ himselfe in S. Matthewes Gospel Wherefore as an infectiue poyson and creeping canker I loath detest and abiure him renounce his authoritie from hencefoorth vtterly reclayme from the whole heape and masse of all his confused errors and deuilish opinions whatsoeuer aswell those hereafter to bee inuented and published as those already by him his taught and authorised Also I denie that he hath any power authoritie or iurisdiction ouer our soueraigne and gracious Queene Elizabeth or ouer any of her Highnesse subiects and liege people either in causes Ecclesiasticall or Temporall and in defence of this doctrine in particular as also of all the poyntes of true religion taught in this Realme and by her gracious Maiestie aucthorised I now my selfe and whatsoeuer from henceforth I shalbe able to performe And I am heartily sorie that euer I offended in professing the contrary my merciful God my dread Soueraigne my deare countrey First therefore with penitent heart prostrate soule before the tribunall of the Almightie I desire his diuine Maiestie for his mercies sake and for his onely some Iesus Christ his sake to regard mee at this present with his merciful eyes and from henceforth to guide and protect mee with his mightie hand that I may alwaies rest vnder the shadow of his wings and at the dreadfull day of his iudgement that he impute not vnto mee my grieuous sinnes and transgressions but that he wil burie them in the sacred and precious wounds of his deare Sonne and couer them with the vaile of his holy mercies Secondly I beseech my soueraigne and gracious Queene to pardon my ignorances presumptions and whatsoeuer besides I haue offended in eyther against her or her Maiesties godly lawes proceedings with bended knees beseeching her Highnesse to accept of my humble and voluntarie submission and to admit me again into the number of her Maiesties loyall subiects and from hencefoorth I vowe vnto her Maiestie my true seruice and duetifull obedience Furthermore I craue pardon of all men in generall whom I haue any wayes scandalized and offended but most especially those whome by erronious doctrine I haue mislead praying heartily to God that they al may be so sincerely cōuerted as my selfe am Lastly I humbly beseech this honourable Christian assembly to pardon my confessed crime and to accept mee as a member of your mystical body vnder our head Iesus Christ And for that I doubt not but that your deuout mindes are readily mooued thereunto I wil omit to vse any further instigation therein but will leaue the matter wholy to the motion and working of Gods holy spirit in all men To conclude for as much as I haue bene credibly enfourmed by some and haue further found it extant in writing that some in this our Realme and in other places haue promised sworne subscribed and for a time vsed the holy Sacraments in the Church deceitfully against their owne conscience minding hereby first vnder the externall cloake of religion to corrupt and subuert secretely Gods true religion within the Church and afterward when time hath serued became open enemies and persecutors of the same vnder vaine hope of the Popes dispensation deuised against the worde of God to his great confusion and their double condemnation at the day of iudgement being willing for mine owne part so farre foorth as in me lieth to take away all suspition of such hypocrisie dissimulation and double dealing with God and his Church I protest before the dreadfull Maiestie of Almightie God who is the searcher of all hearts that my heart and minde doe fully agree with my vttered speaches Moreouer that I haue not nor euer had any dispensation Bull or any maner of facultie for any such purpose Also that I haue not bene moued to this present act by any constraint or rigor vsed or for any worldly respect or hope of gaine or other sinister cause whatsoeuer but onely by the meere perswasion of conscience through the knowledge and loue of Gods true religion begun in my heart by the holy Ghost the profection and perfection whereof I leaue to the mercifull working of his diuine power to whome with

the Father and the Sonne be all honour prayse power and dominion nowe and for euer Amen God saue the Queene THE RECANTATION of THOMAS CLARKE made in an other publike assemblie and congregation after the hearing of Diuine seruice and a Sermon made by M. MVNSEY Preacher and before the holy Communion which together with others I there and then receiued on Easter day being the 15. of Aprill 1593. I There standing before the dreadfull throne of almightie God and the face of the present congregation humblie confessed my selfe to haue bene for the space of these fiue yeres last past a traitour to God an enemie to his holy Church and Gospel a professor of the errors and deuilish opinions of papistrie and consequently a rebellious tratour to my Soueraigne prince and deare countrie Howe that about fiue yeres past I departed my natiue countrey and went into forraigne landes beyonde the seas without the leaue or authoritie of any Magistrate wherby I incurred the danger of the lawes prouided and instituted for the same cause How that being beyond the seas I suffred my selfe to be perswaded by the counsaile of lewd and seditious men to take vpon me the gawling yoke and ouerswaying burthen of popish priest hoode and for that cause I went into the kingdome of France to the Vniuersitie of Rhemes where I studied certaine yeres was then made priest shortly after was by the President of the English Seminarie Colledge at Rhemes sent into England to the ende and intent to withdrawe the peoples heartes from the true seruice of God and their dutifull obedience towardes their prince vnto the pernicious and damnable errors of papistrie and the tyranical subiection and slauerie of the Pope Whom together with diuers of his antecessors successors I acknowledged to be that cōtinuate whore of Babilon and that antichrist whom Saint Iohn hath most liuely painted foorth and described in his Reuelations In this danable businesse aforesaid I confessed y t I had laboured for the space of two yeeres cōmitting dayly more and more high treason against God my Souerainge and most gratious Queene affirming that w tout all doubte I had obstinatly died in that wicked damnable estate as many of my coate and profession had done before if by Gods will I had bene apprehended in any search or by any other meanes before the grace of God had lightened the blindnes of my vnderstanding which by his holy prouidence and tender mercy was in due time powred and that aboundantly into the festered woundes of my gasping soule For being forcibly touched with the diuine finger of Gods holy spirite I began to reuiue and manifestly to see my desperate estate and deuilish madnesse Then was I taught by Gods holy spirite and the reading of holy Scriptures that I ought to be subiect and obedient to my soueraigne prince That mans iustification and righteousnesse commeth not of himselfe by his owne merits but that it is the free gift of God through faith in Iesu Christ That praying to Images is flat Idolatrie That praying to Saintes Purgatorie mens traditions and such like are damnable errors and derogatorie to the honor of God That in Christs holy supper we doe eate his flesh and drinke his blood spiritually through faith not grosly and carnally as before I helde That the dayly offering vp of Christ in the masse is damnable and derogatorie to the death and passion of Christ Lastly I confessed my selfe to be heartily sory for hauing herein so highly offended God my Soueraigne and the world humbly crauing pardon for the same And there I did from the bottome of my heart soule abiure and renounce the Pope and al his tyrannicall power iurisdiction abhorre and detest the masse and al the heape of his wicked errors and damnable opinions whatsoeuer as wel those which I haue not here mentioned as those which I haue here touched by testimonies of holy scriptures briefly confuted And with all reuerence of soule and sinceritie of conscience I then did now doe and for euer by Gods grace will embrace the true faith and wholsome doctrine of Iesus Christ This done I desired the people to say for me the Lords prayer which they did to the ende I might easely obtaine of God truely to bee inserted into his mysticall body and made a liuely member of his holy Church that I might bee a woorthy partaker of his heauenly table and that I might hereafter faithfully walke all the dayes of my life in the true light of his holy Gospel Moreouer I then certified the assembly do now by these presents verifie y ● I vndertooke not this present matter either constrayned or for feare of torture the Magistrates well knowing y t mans faith is not to be wrested by violence or for the auoiding of any displeasure or for hope of fauour or for any sinister cause whatsoeuer but simply and sincerly for y ● honor of God who hath wroght in me this wonderfull worke for the edifying of his Church satisfying of the world This clause I openly protested to y e people after my speech being demanded by the preacher aforesaid in the pulpit thereof as also of this viz. that I had receiued neither frō y e pope nor frō any of his agents nor any mā no dispensatiō licence bull or facultie to dissemble my conuersion neither that I euer as yet heard of any such thing to haue bin granted if there were I acknowledged my simplicitie to be such that I was not accompted a man sufficient to haue so prodigious a matter committed to my trust and charge This is the sūme effect of my speaches to the people And whatsoeuer I then said I do presently confirme in and vnder myne owne hand writing And if this my present acte and that which I haue already performed seeme not sufficient to the eies and iudgments of the wise to testifie the sinceritie and true meaning of my inward repentant soule I am further readie dutifully to perfourme whatsoeuer within my power shall be demaunded at my handes and am willing to spende my life for my Soueraignes safety and my countries good against whome I haue so vnduetifully and vnnaturally rebelled Imprinted at London by the Deputies of CHRISTOPHER BARKER Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie Mat. 7. Rom. 14. 1. Pet. 3. Iohn 5. Mal. 2. Iohn 3. Psalme 116. Mat. 11. Rom. 11. Psal 118. Psal 21. Psal 123. Exod. 20. Numb 34. Deut. 27. Wisd 13. Tert. de Idol Psal 118. Reuel 14. Eccle. 9. Matth. 11. Ioh. 14. 1. Tim. 2. Heb. 8. Heb. 10. 1. Pet. 3. Rom. 3. Iosh 3. Mat. 7. Dan. 9. Mat. 24.

he is the messenger of the Lord of hostes So thou seest whether thou be learned or vnlearned thou art without excuse if thou be ignorant in thy duety because God of his great goodnesse and infinite mercy hath left thee sufficient meanes to come vnto him for which cause we were all created I meane truly and duetifully to serue God God hath created all things both in heauen and earth for the behoofe and benefite of man but hee hath made man onely for his owne selfe for his owne seruice wherein to be negligent and ignorant is a hie contempt of God meere ingratitude for his manifold benefites If hitherto therefore thou hast beene negligent and blinde redeeme thy time with thy future diligence What shall I say deare Christian but onely this leaue the muddie and troubled waters which thou drawest out of the durtie pits of mens imaginations and returne to pure springs and welles of life where thou mayest freely without money or danger drinke thy fill and so satiate thy selfe that thou shalt neuer thirst againe Those whom God hath called in his feare I doe earnestly wish to bee warie how they walke and carefull that they be not circumuented by any maner of false prophets if at any time thou conuerse with them by chance desire God to giue thee strength and grace not to be tempted if thou be tempted that it be not aboue thy strength Qui stat videat ne cadat hee that standeth let him take heede hee fall not for wee carie this treasure that God hath giuen vs in vessels more brittle then glasse for glasse is not more subiect to breaking thē our bodies which ought to be the tēples of the holy Ghost be subiect to pollution by sinne and our soules to bee infected with false doctrine which will seeme in the mouth as pleasant as hony but in the throate it will bee more bitter then wormewood and gall It is like a canker which creepeth secretly and hauing infected is most hardly killed Wherefore if thou wilt not be bitten with the snake sleepe not neere the hedge hee that toucheth pitch must needes cary away some stayne and the Mariner that harkeneth to the Syrene shalbe in danger of shipwracke so hee that will curiously talke and hearken to the papistes sweete perswasions shall scape very hardly such is the outward face shew thereof but he shall be intrapped expertus dico I haue tried it and therfore giue credence to me that knowes more therein then thy selfe and wish thee so much good as my selfe Lastly I am to giue thee to vnderstand good Reader that for sundry causes I haue hereunto ioyned my first recantation made also in a publique assembly where I am to admonish thee not to looke for any expresse methode of my speeches therein as in this other for I neuer meant to publish it eyther in print or writing but was only requested to make knowen to some of my friendes by way of declaration what I had done and nowe it is thought meete to publish it in the same forme together with this whereby thou mayest consider how willing I am to make such sufficient satisfaction to the Church of God as my abilitie may extend vnto and how glad I shal be if any one doe take benefite by my labours And for that I knowe it a thing impossible that any one worke should please euery man but that there will be some fault foūd either the insufficiency of the man or the maner of his methode or the raggednesse of stile or some such like matter will bee reprehended because it commeth to the scanning of farre more sufficient persons then the Author himselfe commonly is though one man sometimes is as sufficient as another some also are more ignorant and therefore can not iudge vprightly and some are curious and seeke rather a fine and filed phrase then the sounde substance of the matter and because they are sicke of the facions there remaineth a great corruption in their taste so that nothing will please them bee it neuer so conuenient and fit for them for my part I regard not the slanders of the enuious nor the scoffes of the curious nor the blunt bolts of the foolish but as in humilitie I vndertooke these labours for the causes aforesayde so in humilitie I offer them for the benefite of the good and vertuous without respect of any other gayne but of their good prayers which if I obtayne my paynes are requited and my selfe satisfied Vale. ❧ The Recantation of Thomas Clarke a Seminarie Priest made at Paules Crosse after the Sermon made by Master Buckeridge Preacher the first day of Iuly 1593. ALthough I haue once already in a publike assemblie made open recantation and abiuration of my former errors right Honorable Worshipfull and welbeloued yet because the place wherein it was done notwithstanding publike was more obscure then I could haue wished as also the audience consisting for the most part of yong persons not altogether sufficient witnesses in so weightie a cause I was the more willing againe at this time in more sufficient maner to publish my former act in this worthy assembly choosing rather thereby to suffer some blemish in my credite if the renouncing of errors may blemish my credite then in any part to seeme negligent in discharging the duetie of a truely reformed Christian whereby the worlde might iustly holde me in suspence y ● Church of God remaine vnsatisfied and mine owne conscience still reteine in it selfe sufficient matter of accusing condemning her selfe For I am of this opinion vnder correction that satisfaction in respect of the world for to God we are able to yeelde no equalitie ought to be in weight and measure according to the offender his habilitie euery way equall with the offence made except the offended be content to remit either in part or in all the duettie growing from the offender Which grace of remission I assure my selfe to haue already obteined at God his hands and the like I hope this Honorable and Christian assembly will this day afforde me consequently all those which I humbly and heartily craue to whome relation of my present deede shal come And for the further manifestation of my cause may it please you to vnderstand first touching my fault that I was sometime a Priest brought vp in the English Seminarie at Rhemes in the kingdome of France a Colledge there erected and supported by the Pope his complices for the mainteining or rather reuiuing of his deuilish doctrine damnable errors in this our Countrey now for a good space raked vp in hel in this happy Iland almost extinguished To this mother of errors and nurse of Idolatry did I repayre being from my childhoode in some sort fostered with hers or the like poysoned milke I omit to speake of my vnnaturall and vnduteifull departing my natiue Countrey without authoritie or leaue obteined from any Magistrate for as our Sauiour Christ